"ran high, and drummer Ringo Starr quit briefly. Harrison's four songwriting contributions to the double album included ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"", which featured Eric Clapton on lead guitar, and the horn-driven ""Savoy Truffle"". Dylan and the Band were a major musical influence on Harrison at the end of his career with the Beatles. While on a visit to Woodstock in late 1968, he established a friendship with Dylan and found himself drawn to the Band's sense of communal music-making and to the creative equality among the band members, which contrasted with Lennon and McCartney's domination of the Beatles' songwriting"
"Jack White John Anthony ""Jack"" White (; born July 9, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the duo The White Stripes, but has also had success in other bands and as a solo artist. White has enjoyed consistent critical and popular success and is widely credited as one of the key artists in the garage rock revival of the 2000s. He has won twelve Grammy Awards, and all three of his solo albums have reached number one on the ""Billboard"" charts. ""Rolling Stone"" ranked him number"
"replicating all song parts and overdubs, such as blending electric, acoustic, slide, and twelve string guitars, as well as piano, organ and clavinet. GuitArmy features professional musicians Tiran Porter on bass and David Tucker, former (Maria Muldaur,([Tommy Castro]) drummer and Musicscool teacher) on drums. Lead vocalist James Durbin, then 19, also guested with the White Album Ensemble's ""Across the Universe"" concert in December 2008 and received a standing ovation for his vocal on ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"". James was the focus of the Musicscool's Guitarmy, doing mostly ([Led Zeppelin]) songs. Next James passed the audition and whizzed up to"
"1968, such as the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in the United States, and the Soviet Russian oppression of Czechoslovakia. Allison writes that the lyrics represent the ""antithesis of spiritual triumphalism"", in which Harrison ""mourns because love has not conquered all"". The Beatles recorded ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" several times during the sessions for their self-titled double album, also known as ""the White Album"". The recording sessions, which began in late May 1968, were characterised by a lack of cooperation among the four band members, and by what Lennon's bandmates regarded as the overly intrusive presence"
"comedian Lucille Ball. Harrison and the Beatles were at the time recording their self-titled double album (also known as ""the White Album""), and had been working for several weeks on ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"". Harrison had been unable to record a lead guitar part that he was satisfied with; moreover, Lennon and McCartney were dismissive of the song and ""didn't try very hard"". Knowing that his bandmates would be on good behaviour around a guest musician, Harrison invited Clapton to come into EMI Studios on September 6 and play on the song, telling him ""you don't need to bring"
"White Album track ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" on 6 September, marking a rare appearance by another rock musician on a Beatles recording as Harrison sought to defuse tensions within the band. In an interview with the ""NME"" in late September, Harrison said he was keen to depart from his image as ""Mystical Beatle George"" and now wanted to contribute songs without any profound message.<ref name=""Smith/NME""></ref> He wrote ""Savoy Truffle"" as a tribute to Clapton's sweet tooth. He derived the title and much of the lyrics from a box of Mackintosh's Good News chocolates, which Clapton began eating during one"
"Leng comments that on Harrison's return to Madison Square Garden towards the end of the tour, his playing on the song nevertheless received a standing ovation. Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey covered ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" on his 1990 album ""Hell to Pay"". Harrison participated in the recording, contributing on acoustic guitar and backing vocals. Also issued as a single, Healey's version peaked at number 27 in Canada, number 85 in the UK and number 25 in New Zealand. During the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II concert at Buckingham Palace Garden on 3 June 2002, McCartney performed the song with"
"Clapton, as a tribute to Harrison. The performance appears on the DVD release ""Party at the Palace"". On 29 November the same year, Clapton, backed by a large band that included McCartney, Starr, Dhani Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Marc Mann, performed ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" at the Concert for George in memory of Harrison. Author Ian Inglis writes that while Clapton was already ""permanently associated"" with ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" due to his presence on the White Album recording and the Concert for Bangladesh and ""Live in Japan"" versions, his long, closing solo at the Concert for George"
"recording was made in September 1968, at which point the song's folk-based musical arrangement was replaced by a production in the heavy rock style. The recording was one of several collaborations between Harrison and Clapton during the late 1960s and was followed by the pair co-writing the song ""Badge"" for Clapton's group Cream. On release, the song received praise from several music critics, and it has since been recognised as an example of Harrison's continued maturity as a songwriter beside his Beatles bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney. ""Rolling Stone"" ranked ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" 136th on its list"
"1971 and ""Live in Japan"" in 1992. Backed by a band that included McCartney and Ringo Starr, Clapton performed the song at the Concert for George in November 2002, a year after Harrison's death. George Harrison wrote ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" after his return from India, where the Beatles had been studying Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi during the spring of 1968. The visit had allowed Harrison to re-engage with the guitar as his primary instrument, after focusing on the Indian sitar for the previous two years, and also marked the start of a prolific period for him"
"of the song on his 2003 album ""Now"". In 2004, when Harrison was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" was played in tribute by a large band that included Tom Petty, Lynne, Steve Winwood, Mann, Dhani Harrison and Steve Ferrone. The performance concluded with an extended guitar solo by Prince, who was also being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Among other cover versions, the song has also been recorded by guitarists such as Marc Ribot, Phish and Charlie Byrd, and on ukulele by Jake Shimabukuro. Toto"
"The Heart Gently Weeps ""The Heart Gently Weeps"" is the first single from the 2007 album ""8 Diagrams"" by the Wu-Tang Clan. The song features a sample of The Beatles' song ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"". It features guest appearances from three other musicians: R&B singer Erykah Badu sings the song's chorus; Dhani Harrison, son of Beatles member George Harrison, plays acoustic guitar; and John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is featured on lead guitar. This song was made using a cover version of the George Harrison song played by the blues guitarist Jimmy Ponder. Out of respect"
"Darkness"", with guest vocals on the third verse by Russell, who covered the song on his concurrent album, ""Leon Russell and the Shelter People"" (1971). After pausing to introduce the band, Harrison followed this with one of the best-received moments in both the shows – a charging version of the White Album track ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"", featuring him and Clapton ""duelling"" on lead guitar during the long instrumental playout. Both the band introduction and ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" are among the few selections from the afternoon show that were included on the album and in the film."
"but we didn't make it. Larry Knechtel played piano on this cut but it was too fast. The whole thing was a mess."" The album also included a bluegrass instrumental named ""Green Apple Quick Step"", written by Parsons and lead guitarist Clarence White, which featured guest musicians Eric White, Sr. (Clarence's father) on harmonica and Byron Berline on fiddle. White also brought the Helen Carter song ""My Destiny"" to the recording sessions, having first learned it during his days as a bluegrass musician. White elected to sing lead vocal on the track but unfortunately his nasal voice and the band's"
"a lead guitar part, although he was not formally credited for his contribution. Harrison wrote ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" as an exercise in randomness inspired by the Chinese ""I Ching"". The song conveys his dismay at the world's unrealised potential for universal love, which he refers to as ""the love there that's sleeping"". Harrison first recorded it with a sparse backing of acoustic guitar and harmonium – a version that appeared on the 1996 ""Anthology 3"" outtakes compilation and, with the addition of a string arrangement by George Martin, on the ""Love"" soundtrack album in 2006. The full group"
"anniversary re-staging of Cirque du Soleil's ""Love"" theatrical production. The video was directed by Dandypunk, André Kasten and Leah Moyer. Ryan Reed, describing the clip for rollingstone.com, wrote that ""Dandypunk's hand-drawn illustrations depict Harrison's lyrics falling off the page into the air, transporting LOVE performer Eira Glover into a series of fantastical locations. Projection mapping – and no CGI – was used to create the clip."" According to Ian MacDonald, Walter Everett and John Winn: White Album version ""Anthology 3"" version While My Guitar Gently Weeps ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" is a song by the English rock band the"
"for George Harrison, RZA, who produced this song, asked Harrison's son Dhani to play rhythm guitar. It was played using a mint condition Gretsch guitar from 1961 which was given to RZA as a gift from Russell Crowe after they had finished filming ""American Gangster"". The song was #50 on ""Rolling Stone""s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. The Heart Gently Weeps ""The Heart Gently Weeps"" is the first single from the 2007 album ""8 Diagrams"" by the Wu-Tang Clan. The song features a sample of The Beatles' song ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"". It features guest appearances"
"Albert White (musician) Albert White (born December 1, 1942) is an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He has released two albums in his own name, although his musical career started in the late 1950s, when he played in Piano Red's then ensemble, later known as Dr. Feelgood & the Interns. White has variously performed with the Tams, Joe Tex, Ray Charles, Beverly Watkins, Clarence Carter, Ben E. King, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, and Rufus Thomas. White was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. His was a musical family, having Piano Red as an uncle. He began learning to"
"Martin Luther McCoy Martin Luther McCoy (born July 1970) is an American musician and actor. McCoy is a San Francisco native from the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. Martin collaborated extensively with musicians like The Roots and Cody ChesnuTT and appears as one of the six lead characters in the 2007 Beatles musical ""Across the Universe"" in the role of ""Jo-Jo"", who reflects Jimi Hendrix. In the film, McCoy performs the song ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"", and ""Don't Let Me Down"" and also provides guitar and vocals on others. McCoy goes by the stage name of ""Martin Luther"" in his music"
"Guitar Gently Weeps"" at every one of his comparatively rare concerts as a solo artist. Writing for ""Mojo"" in 2003, Ashley Kahn attributed the track's ""classic"" status to its evocation of ""a band falling out of harmony"" and, with regard to the enduring musical bond between Harrison and Clapton, its standing as """"their"" song"". At Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh, held at Madison Square Garden in New York on 1 August 1971, Clapton performed the song on a Gibson Byrdland, a hollow-body guitar more suited to jazz or country music than rock. He later said that this was a poor decision"
"Phil Ochs's 'Tape from California', is the first track I know that succeeds in making magnanimous love serious and touching."" ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" became a staple of US rock radio during the early 1970s, on a par with songs such as ""Layla"" by Clapton's short-lived band Derek and the Dominos, Led Zeppelin's ""Stairway to Heaven"" and the Who's ""Won't Get Fooled Again"". In 1973, it appeared on the Beatles' double album compilation ""1967–1970"", as one of only three tracks representing the White Album. Capitol Records included it on ""The Best of George Harrison"" in 1976; a year before"
"track"". Starr paired it with ""Something"" as ""Two of the finest love songs ever written"", adding: ""they're really on a par with what John and Paul or anyone else of that time wrote."" In their written tributes to Harrison following his death in November 2001, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards each expressed their admiration for the song. Jagger said: ""It's lovely, plaintive. Only a guitar player could write that ..."" In 2018, the music staff of ""Time Out London"" ranked ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" at number 20 on their list of the best Beatles songs. Harrison played ""While My"
"contained ""perhaps the most expressive"" playing of all those versions. American musician Todd Rundgren covered ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" for the 2003 album """". Rundgren said of his contribution to the multi-artist tribute: ""[Before the Beatles], I'd never heard the term 'lead guitarist.' George created the job description for my first paying gig, the vocation that I'm still lucky enough to practice today …"" Johnny Loftus of AllMusic views the recording as one of the collection's highlights, saying that Rundgren ""effortlessly replicates the grandeur"" of the Beatles' track. As his personal tribute to Harrison, Peter Frampton released a version"
"Beatles were recording their album ""Revolver"". He returned to the song two years later, after discovering his manuscript in the attic of his parents' house in Liverpool. The same visit led to Harrison starting a new composition, ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"", which he similarly completed for inclusion on the Beatles' self-titled double album (also known as ""the White Album""). As an anti-establishment song, ""Piggies"" recalls Harrison's ""Revolver"" composition ""Taxman"". In his 1980 autobiography, ""I, Me, Mine"", Harrison describes ""Piggies"" as a social commentary. He intended it as a light-hearted satire on consumerism and class distinction. Through its theme of"
"won as a solo performing artist: Although a solo artist, White performs with a live band to provide additional instrumentation and vocals. The Buzzards (all male band) The Peacocks (all female band) Solo studio albums With the White Stripes With the Raconteurs With the Dead Weather Jack White John Anthony ""Jack"" White (; born July 9, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the duo The White Stripes, but has also had success in other bands and as a solo artist. White has enjoyed consistent critical and"
"shows. After finally boarding a plane, Clapton performed without the benefit of a rehearsal, and ""he was brilliant,"" Harrison says, somewhat generously. Clapton, for his part, recalls the time as a period of ""retirement"" and states that he ""really made it hard"" for himself in the concerts, choosing to play a hollow-body Gibson Byrdland for his solo on ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"", when a solid-body would have been more appropriate. There are also short features on the making of Saul Swimmer's film, the release of the live album, movie poster and album artwork, concert photography, and personal recollections of"
"Fender Rhodes electric piano on ""Don't Let Me Down"" and ""Get Back"". Preston had been introduced to the Beatles in 1962, and worked with them in 1969, when Harrison invited him to join them for recording sessions in order to defuse tensions in the band. Lennon once suggested that Preston join the Beatles, even using the term ""Fifth Beatle"", but the idea was dismissed by the others. To distinguish him from the controversy over who is the Fifth Beatle, he is sometimes given the unique title of the ""Black Beatle"". Originally ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"" had only the first"
"hiatus. The band is still touring and making music, releasing their latest album Elation in May 2012 on Frontiers Records. Mark has been quoted by saying, “Music is a pure blessing and I wouldn't change anything about my life”. He said, “Even with all the mistakes I have made, they are nothing more than learning experiences and just part of life”.. During the 1980s Great White reached the peak of their popularity, making multiple platinum albums. Mark Kendall (guitarist) Mark Kendall (born April 29, 1957) is a lead guitarist born in Loma Linda, California. He is best known for being"
"and ""Strawberry Fields Forever."" This song, along with ""Glass Onion"" and ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps,"" is one of the few known Beatles songs on which Paul McCartney used a Fender Jazz Bass rather than his better-known Hofner bass or his Rickenbacker bass. Contributing to the live sound of the song, loud yelling between band members can be heard in the instrumental tracks. Just after the album ""The Beatles"" came out in late 1968, Lennon performed ""Yer Blues"" at ""The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus"" with a supergroup dubbed ""The Dirty Mac,"" consisting of himself, Eric Clapton on lead"
"The White Stripes (album) The White Stripes is the debut studio album by American alternative rock duo The White Stripes, released on June 15, 1999. The album was produced by Jim Diamond and vocalist/guitarist Jack White, recorded in January 1999 at Ghetto Recorders and Third Man Studios in Detroit. White dedicated the album to deceased blues musician Son House. Johnny Walker of the Soledad Brothers played slide guitar on two songs: ""Suzy Lee"" and ""I Fought Piranhas"". Walker is credited with having taught Jack White how to play slide, a technique featured heavily on the White Stripes' first two albums."
"several years in and around the Bothell, Washington, area (northeast of Seattle). They frequently played Bothell High School, Inglemoor High School, and Shorecrest High School, as well as many taverns and club venues. In 1969, the band went through line-up changes—Gary Ziegelman (former lead singer of Buffalo Clancy) on lead vocals, Roger on guitar, Steve on bass, James Cirrello on guitar, Ron Rudge on drums, Ken Hansen on percussion,—and a new name, White Heart. The name White Heart came from a discussion Roger Fisher's brother Mike Fisher had with Michael Munro, who had come up with the name White Hart"
"Live. White provided vocals and a guitar riff on Meek Mill's album DC4. In 2016, White's ""Midnight Blues"" was sampled on rapper Meek Mills' mega-hit ""Blue Notes"". Snowy White Terence Charles ""Snowy"" White (born 3 March 1948, Barnstaple, Devon) is an English guitarist, known for having played with Thin Lizzy (permanent member from 1980 to 1982) and with Pink Floyd (as a backing guitarist; he was first invited to tour with the band through Europe and the United States in 1977, and during ""The Wall"" shows in 1980) and, more recently, for Roger Waters' band. He is also known for"
"Robert White (guitarist) Robert Willie White (November 19, 1936 – October 27, 1994) was an African-American soul musician, one of the guitarists for Motown's in-house studio band, the Funk Brothers, White is best known for performing the guitar riff on The Temptations' number-one hit single ""My Girl"", but played the guitar on many successful Motown records, including ""Can I Get a Witness"" by Marvin Gaye, ""You Keep Me Hangin' On"" by The Supremes, ""My Cherie Amour"" by Stevie Wonder, ""Something About You"" by the Four Tops and ""It's a Shame"" by The Spinners. Oscar Moore and Wes Montgomery were among"